March Madness Challenger Edition: Part 6, End of Round 3

Ghazghkull  1/1/1/Dead

Bloodthirster 1/1/0/2/Moves on (Wow! Really close fight! If Bloodthirster hadn’t done as well last round Ghazghkull was almost guaranteed to win by attrition. He used his super Waaaaaagh round 3 but Bloodthirster missed two and failed to wound with ¾ of the remaining attacks so it didn’t really matter)

Skarbrand 3/Moves on!

Swarmlord 0/Dead (Whoops! Forgot Swarmlord didn’t have Eternal Warrior. He stood no chance.)

Asurmen 0/1/0/0/Dead

Lucius 0/1/0/2/Moves on! (Man what a close fight! It looked like Asurmen was going to get a wound every turn but Lucius kept making the save. What did he roll on the chaos boon table? 56 which gives him +1WS bringing his total to 8. He retains his instant killing ability from before.

Asdrubael 0/Dead

Draigo 1/Moves on! (Amazing, was waiting for a Draigo 1-shot. Hammerhand gave him S6 which puts his attacks into the instant death territory for FX. Unfortunately Vect does not have eternal warrior and thus dies the instant he fails and save and the only wound he had to save he failed.)

Winners round is showing how much Eternal Warrior is needed on expensive killer heroes. Without it they are exceptionally vulnerable to other heroes. Except for Skarbrand because he always goes first and kills the first round. Ahh well, maybe Draigo will finish him off 2 rounds from now. New winners bracket:

Winners

Bloodthirster

Skarbrand

Lucius

Draigo

We no go down to the resurrection bracket :

Drazhar 1/Moves on

Sliscus 0/Dead (Drazhar makes quick work of Sliscus. He used the bonus strength mode of his blade to cause instant death on Sliscus who does not have Eternal Warrior. He hit with every attack and wounded with every attack and Sliscus had to save everything or die. He failed.)

Azreal 0/0/0/1/0/Dead

Imotekh 0/1/0/0/1/Moves on (Neither of these guys can fight. Especially against models with a 2+ armor save.)

Typhus 3/Moves on

Eldrad 1/Dead (Eldrad failed ¾ 3++ saves which immediately killed him. A bit unexpected rolls for him. Typhus now gets a roll on the Boon Table! He got 26 or +1BS. Super useful. Hey who knows, he may win next round and become a Daemon Prince.

Marneus 0/1/2/1/Moves on

Lysander 0/0/1/0/Dead (Marneus made freaking almost every save possible. At a 5++! He must have talked to Vulkan in between rounds. These Space Marines just have tons of luck on their side.)

Grimnar 3/Moves on

Sanguinor 1/Dead (The rematch went even worse than the first round for Sanguinor. He was destined to lose to a wolf apparently.)

Avatar 2/1/Moves on

Vulkan He'stan 0/Dead (Soooo apparently Vulkan took off his cloak because he failed every save. Nice turn-around, too bad it didn’t happen for Kharn. Single tear.)

Ragnar 1/0/0/Dead

St. Celestine 1/0/1/2/Moves on (Whaaat? Celestine managed to win a stand-up knockdown fight? Badass, guess the Emperor is on her side.)

Sammael 1/0/Dead

Mephiston 1/4/Moves on (How does a 250 point HQ have no invuln save? Riddle me that Mephiston, he’s a monster in CC but once you get past his 2+ he’s done for. I believe this fight also means Dark Angels are eliminated.)

So the resurrection bracket had a few surprises again. The new bracket is:

Resurrection

Drazhar

Imotekh

Typhus
Marneus

Grimnar

Avatar

St. Celestine

Mephiston

And next round they will be joined by:

Ghazghkull

Swarmlord

Asurmen

Asdrubael

That's it for today. I'm very interested in seeing who wins this in the end. Skarbrand and Draigo are getting closer together and things have turned south for Lucius as he's now against a 2++ Eternal Warrior. Things that could ruin his chances.